#this means they'll probably be manga accurate this time around

[kuwupikaa]

TBHK ANIME RESTART??

[myheroblogs]

Thoughts on 306

Okay, I swear I went through the 5 stages of grief with this chapter. It was almost like I stopped funtioning from this-

I knew of the leaks, but decided to talk about this on the day of the official release, since the scans aren't 100% accurate.

I guess it wasn't exactly "chapter" but the last "act".

Reminds me of the post that I was going to make that's now abandoned in my drafts (ha)

We're not necessarily in the "last arc", as there are still way too many things to include in the story.

It seems we're probably in the last act of the overall narrarive of the story. If don't know what I mean, think about that "3-Act-Structure" in narratives. Act 1 is the Set-Up, Act 2 is the Confrontation, and Act 3 is the Resolution.

We're now in the 3rd Act. The "Return of the Jedi" phase of the story. Act 1 ended with the torch being passed on after the first OFA vs AFO fight, mentor vs mentor. Now, Act 2 concluded with successor vs successor, after the second OFA vs AFO fight. I would assume Act 3 (or the overall story) may end sometime after the final OFA vs AFO fight, a fight including all users.

It's interesting that both Act 1 and Act 2 appear to be 3 Seasons each for the anime. This chapter may go into the very end of Season 6, around 3 Seasons after All Might and All For One first fought in the anime, All Might retured and passed on the baton to the future generations.

If this final act follows this same pattern, we can expect around 5-6 main story arcs left in the Manga, which is still a long way to go, and each one could vary in length. The final story arc may just be the aftermath of the final OFA vs AFO, so technically we probably have 4-5 arcs before the final showdown.

Now putting that aside, there's now Midoriya dropping out...

Okay, this is just heartbreaking- 😭

This kind of setup with Midoriya is pretty interesting, storywise. Now in the story as well, it's kinda needed for his character.

I don't know about you guys, I'm not saying that Midoriya hasn't gotten any character development. However, it feels like he didn't get much emotional character development, like Todoroki or Bakugo. This may be the Deku-centric arc that we've been waiting for. Or it may be the arc after this, who knows.

I've also seen a lot of people talking that Bakugo Katsuki possibly going after him. I agree with this, but I believe it'll be done at a later date instead. At a time where Midoriya needs saving.

Do you really think that someone like BAKUGO, the only other guy who knows about OFA, who was also in the same hospital as Midoriya and Todoroki at the time, would've been kept out of something like this?

I think Bakugo would've known. Maybe that's why he's not shown. Heck, he may even still be at the hospital. If he really came with Midoriya, he wouldn't be THIS depressed with eyebags under his eyes.

Midoriya's choice of leaving felt so... off to me. Not that it's bad, it's ENTIRELY reasonable. The reason why it felt so wrong was because it kinda parallels Nana's own choice of leaving her son. You all know how this went.

All Might or Midoriya himself could've made Bakugo (and possibly Todoroki too) to promise to not go after him, just like how Nana made All Might and Gran Torino to not to go after her son.

Perhaps both need to be away from each other for a while.

I've seen people suggest the idea that Midoriya may start seeing the flaws of society through this arc where he goes out on his own, when he gets exposed to the harshness of the outside world, unfiltered. This may indeed be the direction for Midoriya, where he'll learn of the people failed through society's system.

However, it'll also be interesting while Midoriya learns of the people failed through this hero system, Bakugo and the others learn of what caused this system to fail. Because society only relied on this one pillar for support, and when this pillar falls, it all just falls down. The best place to probably learn of this is to be at the centre of it all, and UA, now full of heroes of the new generation, is at the centre.

It's interesting that Uraraka may have been the one narrating this chapter, hinted with how the text here says "Deku-kun" in JP.

She just so happens to be one of those characters who wants to support other heroes. About the same as Bakugo.

The topic of going after Midoriya would also bring some interesting topics that may parallel the Kamino accident where the students decided to go after Katsuki. And then they'll probably be faced with a question similar to what Deku faced in the previous chapter. Even if they want to go after him, even if they want to save him, does Midoriya want them to? Because we all know that Midoriya may end up blaming himself if they go after him and something happens to them and make him more upset than before. It's a very interesting topic to be brought up, facing the question of "Reaching out to save someone vs Someone reaching out to be saved", which is a very interesting topic to go into in the future.

Also, Midoriya isn't going out entirely on his own. This chapter just so happens to occur right after the conversation of the vestiges. This is the last line the First User told him beforehand.

There's been a lot of emphasis on these vestiges being there for Midoriya. Even if there's 2 vestiges just moping in the back there, there's still 6 of them willing to help him out.

From the beginning, I've always been interested in how First User will interact with Midoriya. This is because it seems like Horikoshi is setting them up as foils or parallels in a way. I thought there's a chance that at some point, the vestiges may fully take charge of mentoring Midoriya, but I didn't know how that'll go. (I assumed it could be through All Might's death, honestly)

It's kinda convenient that they suddenly could be able to talk to him now without anything hindering them now. I think this is so that they can now freely mentor him at any time. Also, Midoriya could probably still reconnect with All Might as its also revealed he can now feel what's going on with the vestige realm to some extent, so it's not that they're completely out of touch.

Anyways, that's a wrap of what I'm gonna talk about for now. I'll probably make a seperate post about Midoriya's character (and probably Heroes in general) from this point on in the story.

(Or it could just get abandoned like the counless of drafts I have here, haha...)

Well, see you guys in the next one!